ABSTRACT
I f Professor Fisher takes this advice, one question which deserves clarification is whether there is a distinction between issues and conflicts. Professor Fisher does not explicitly equate the two, but gives them the same weight in his analysis, seems to reach conclusions about them based on the assumption that they are identical, and fails to examine the factors that differentiate them as they affect his theses. To point up the distinction, one could, speciously perhaps, argue that issues are potential sources of conflict which can be resolved by following Professor Fisher's guidelines, while conflicts are those more intractable disputes which defy such attempts at resolution.
